 Hello, thank you for joining me today. I'm going for a walk by the Grand Union Canal and I'm in Warwickshire I'm in the village of Shrewley We're going to pass under this bridge here and on the other side of this bridge There is something really quite different to what you'll normally find There's a canal tunnel and you can see up ahead The canal tunnel canal tunnels, you know aren't that unusual always quite exciting always enjoy it I get to go through a canal tunnel, but it's that next to it There's another tunnel a tunnel which we get to walk through and that's what I'm excited about It seems it's one of those tunnels you get some tunnels so like an example the one at church You can walk through the tunnel. There's a towpath inside the tunnel. This one doesn't have a towpath so The men would have legs to boat through the tunnel and ever sent the horse to walk up over soft of the tunnel Hopefully the horse would have found their way to the other end But in this case the horse as well and any people who are walking over the hill would also get to go through a tunnel Let's go up there and have a closer look So although the canal is today part of the Grand Union Canal It was originally built by the Warwick and Birmingham canal company. They obtained their act of Parliament in 1793 and the tunnel opened in 1799 They thought they'd need three tunnels another one at Rowington and one at Yardley But the other two just became cuttings a bit like what we have here this cutting. It's quite interesting in the middle You've got this sandwich of ardent sandstone But there had to still be a tunnel here the shrewly tunnel Which we're just coming up towards because it would have literally cut the village of shrewly in half Which we shall see when we get up there a local vicar was very interested He would come and have a look for fossils the Reverend Peter Brodery He'd come down and he found all sorts of fossils of You know prehistoric animals so we're walking up here as you can see now the top off is starting to lift away From the canal itself and the really exciting bit is ahead the the tunnel and So as I said the tunnel obviously goes through they'd have sent the horses over the top I've been to other tunnels like I said the one at Cherk you could walk through there's one odium down in Hampshire That one where the sun's blocked now Physically can't get right through but with that one It would have been the same. I don't think there was a top off so you'd have walked over the top We're now what it sounds actually called great. Well, it's near odium. We're now approaching this really quite exciting I've not seen anything quite like this. It's just funny seeing like a big tunnel with a little tunnel above. I can hear the sound a Boat did just go into the tunnel I'm sort of half wondering Do I wait here and see a boat come out? I think it's just the echoing of a boat But there's clearly a boat in the tunnel right now today's People who ride on boats, they don't need to worry about legging the boats Some of them might switch it off just for a laugh and leg it through but it's not Something it's necessary. So this is 396 meters there. So it's about 430 yards long So you can hear all the I'm just going to stop talking to you. This is the sound of water So you can hear all the water it's a very wet cut and there's water Dripping everywhere and then ahead of us here. This is the little foot tunnel So what we're going to see we're going to walk up through this foot tunnel and this should take us up to the village So see last of the tunnel there and then what we'll do a walk over the top of the hill finally up rent This is amazing I can only assume that there's residential gardens above and that they didn't want Um, you know horses and everything walking through horses, you know leaving manure and garden So they built them this tunnel to push them underneath I don't yeah, you can see you can see how they're the bricks. You can't see my face, but you can see them tunnel Yeah for the horses to grip as they made their way up here And then the last bit where it gets a bit steeper There's some steps. I think these steps are a later addition. Get that concrete So we got these steps now And this should take us up into the village, which is really fascinating Really not come across something quite like this Before so here we are that is the other end Of the tunnel what we need to do down though will continue on up to the village And then i'm going to find the path It'll take me down to the other side and we'll find the other end of the tunnel So There's houses in front of us I can see just on top of the tunnel So there's a greenhouse. Possibly it is just a residential gardens were there and they Didn't want to disrupt them I think this is the Village center here now Seems to be a road anyway Yeah, we're in the Village Center Uh, yeah, well seems sort of funny to think Down there somewhere below us There in our tunnel What I'm going to do I'm going to go down here because this is the way But down there is the nearby railway Um, the what is now the Chilton main line up towards Birmingham South of here Is the station of Hatton. There's no railway station in this village But the railway passes through not in a tunnel in a cutting and what I'm going to do I'm going to walk off Down there while I walk down there. I'm going to let you see it's keeping the train passing through the cutting I hope you enjoyed seeing that black five pass through if I go to somewhere like this I tend to plan it around that I'll make more than one video on the day So there's a steam train running I can go and see that and then make some videos like this if you want to see the rest of that video Um, see where else I saw that train have a look at the icon screen now I've been chasing it about all day. Anyway, we've come down that little lane. It's turned this more of a path And then it goes a bit steep And down there I can just see the water. I think we're getting exciting tunnels this time to go through I think we simply just a bit more like your average canal tunnel will just come Down the hill and find the tunnel Let's have a look. So there's the canal in front of us. So it's pretty much a dead straight run underneath the village And uh, there we go I can hear the sound of that boat. Have I beaten the boat over the top of the canal? I didn't think I Would but maybe the boat's going a bit slow or maybe he's just got the engine on too And he's legging it. I'm not too sure Anyway, um, it sounds like there is still a boat in the tunnel And I'm going right down to towpath level and then I'm going to go off and Try and see that train again somewhere else. So that glass out so in a separate video So here we are. We're down at the other end of the truly tunnel. There it is in front of us So I hope you've enjoyed this video Thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like share comment and subscribe and from truly tunnel and watch here